Emergency Doctor - Softcover

Ziegler, Edward

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345356640 ISBN 13: 9780345356642

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 1988

Synopsis

Some three hundred people slam through its doors every day. Gunshot cops, battered kids, drug addicts, and suicides. Destitute drunks, bag ladies, AIDS sufferers, and accident victims. It's a bizarre parade of humanity looking for help. In the one place they know they can find it.
Welcome to the front-line trenches of medicine: the emergency room of the legendary Bellevue Hospital. Here an army of doctors and nurses -- and director Dr. Lewis R. Goldfrank -- face the onslaught of young and old, rich and ragged, sick and dying. All day, all night. All year.
This is their story -- a round-the-clock drama of the unexpected. . . . A crane falling on a hapless pedestrian . . . a crazed executive wearing two thrids of a three-piece suit . . . a pretty paralegal aide struggling with an on-the-job cocaine overdose . . . a trauma victim of an East River helicopter crash clinging to life . . . It's terrifying, tragic, triumphant, true. And it's the one story you'll never forget.
"Illuminating and knock-down thrilling enough to leave readers exhausted." -- The Washington Post Book World

About this title

About the Author:

Edward Ziegler is a former editor at Reader's Digest.

From the Inside Flap:

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--Booklist
A crane falls on a hapless mother of two, almost crushing her to death . . . A trauma victim of a helicopter crash desperately clings to life . . . A paralegal aide suffers a violent seizure from a cocaine overdose and gasps for breath . . . Welcome to the ER at Bellevue Hospital, the frontline trenches of medicine where doctors fight around-the-clock to save lives at a frenetic pace of quick decisions and real life-and-death drama.
Some three hundred people slam through these hospital doors every day. Gunshot cops, battered kids, drug addicts, and suicides. Destitute drunks, bag ladies, AIDS sufferers, and accident victims. It's a bizarre parade of humanity looking for help in the one place they know they can find it: the ER.
"Gut-wrenching, heartwarming, and instructive about the exigencies of this branch of medicine as practiced at this legendary institution."

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About this edition

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0345356640
• ISBN 13: 9780345356642
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback